To be fair, there seems to be a very tiny kernel of truth to Akin's claims. It seems that a woman might be more receptive to a male with whom she has previously had intercourse. More specifically, males with whom she has had intercourse within the the past month have an excellent chance of impregnating her. Something about her immune system allowing the sperm in.
So, presumably, a rapist with whom she had never had intercourse would have a poor chance of impregnating the woman.
But - as I say, it's a very tiny kernel of truth. It's possible that Akin's read of the same study that I did, and did some huge ass short circuit to the conclusion that rapists can't impregnate their victims.
Heh - my Google search term gave this link back - notice the title, LMAO! There's more at work here than I imagined!
Greed? You call it greed? How can you? I am very happy that Apple has these approved conductors. Using an unapproved conductor might result in some random positively charged electron flowing through my device. What kind of havoc might result from THAT? Oh, Please, Apple - put those chips into your conductive cables! Filter out those positive electrons!! Yea, though I walk through the valley of positiveness, Apple will protect me with negativeness!!
Alright, so the inanity and the sarcasm are over done - I apologize.
You presume that a God would find harmony to be the most desired trait of an entire world.
I think that God has more in common with Mars, than some of the other pantheon from Greece and Rome. All living things struggle for existence. There is no peace in nature. Every single day's survival is hard won for almost all creatures.
Oh? Really? Could you point me to the robot that has entered intergalactic space? I didn't think so. Depending on one's definition of interstellar space, we might argue that no robot has yet left our solar system, let alone our galaxy. The robot that has gotten furthest from our sun is still subject to our sun's gravitational influence.
"pay some guy to drive a over to the subject house and install a physical device on the identified wire"
That is almost entirely false. The physical device is located at the telephone exchange. Identify the wire at the switchboard, and tap away.
In my youth, there were still "party lines", as opposed to "private lines". Paying the dollar or two extra to get a private line didn't change a damned thing at all - you still had the very same wires, running to the very same exchange. But people on a party line could lift the phone anytime, and listen in on the neighbor's conversation. The operator at the exchange has always had that same ability.
If the cops are installing a bug on your phone, that means they want to hear what you're talking about when you are NOT ON the phone!
"The executive branch is tasked with enforcing the law. It can only do so by means of potentially-lethal force, which is otherwise illegal"
I would argue that statement to be false as well. The "it can only do so" part of the second sentence makes it false.
Government MAY use lethal force to enforce a law - but it MAY also do so with other means.
Take the average police standoff, in which there are no hostages, and no lives at stake other than the suspect and the police. The cops MAY fire thousands of rounds into the vicinity of the suspect - OR, they MAY just wait him out.
I am not averse to using deadly force when people's lives are at stake. But, there have been a number of cases in which the cops seem to be trigger happy thugs. A recent WW2 veteran who was killed for refusing medications in a nursing home comes to mind . . .
I'm partial to the 283 or the 327, myself. I had a car that most guys wouldn't even look at. An old, ugly, station wagon. Well, to be honest, it wasn't THAT ugly. It shined up nicely, but it was a STATION WAGON!! 327 with a 3-speed slip-slide, and highway gears. There was nothing special about it, no custom engine work or anything - it was just a strong engine. When I went to town, I'd play games with the motorheads at the traffic lights - they'd burn half their rubber off their cars, but the old wagon would just grab asphalt and get down the road.
I never learned how fast that car would go, but the speedo went to 140, and I broke it out repeatedly, until I got tired of buying cables.
As I recall - the Talladega could give you 200+ in the late sixties. Washington and Nascar started work on forcing LESS powerful engines to be used, bringing "record speeds" at the race tracks DOWN. I'm less of a Mopar fan than I am a Ford fan - but Dodge was producing cars that went head to head with the Talladega, and sometimes won.
Funny thing is - if you're capable of balancing atop three or more high speed gyros, there are a number of inexpensive motorcycles that will outrun any of the cars being sold as "sport" cars. Ten thousand is a good starting point for bikes that can flirt with 200 mph, and if you're more than half serious, you can start modifying that bike as soon as you get it home.
Like Iraq, Vietnam was also based on manufactured false information. You may limit your reading to the wikis, or you may dig deeper, as you wish. But, Tonkin Bay, which was the primary igniter in getting our troops into Vietnam was entirely a false flag operation.
Nahhh - some people probably think it's the government's budget for black SUV's. And, that would be "news for nerds" based on all the options and accessories to be found in said black SUV's.
I saw one not long ago, in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Damned thing was completely blacked out, violating any and all laws about tinted windshields. There had to be six antenna sticking up out of it, maybe more. I only saw it for a couple seconds, in cross traffic at one of the three red light intersections in town. Wonder what the hell spooks were doing in Broken Bow, Oklahoma? Maybe there was a credible threat to the ancient old cypress tree outside of town or something.
Drones. That's where the money goes. Drones are expensive. And, the facilities to operate the drones. The military industrial complex, and the components of that complex, sets their own prices. Like the no-bid contracts exposed in the Iraq war, money is no problem. Secret deals are made, complete with kickbacks and campaign donations, and the government pays whatever the contractor says to pay. The people who authorize these expenditures are part of the same group that authorizes expenditures for billion dollar aircraft. Think about that - billion dollar aircraft.
Alright - maybe I exaggerate the drone cost some, but I am pretty damned serious.
You've just arrived on the internet, and you've never heard of Predator, or Echelon, of any other data gathering programs and softwares.
Well, since you are so new here, your ignorance can be forgiven. Prism is just the latest version of data mining programs. And, Prism isn't the only program. A number of articles have suggested that Prism is just one of the many facets of NSA spying.
It is GOVERNMENT that is at fault here. It isn't one administration - it is GOVERNMENT. Our government is so damned big, even congress has little idea what any part of government is doing. Only after Snowden forced Prism into the spotlight did members of congress begin to demand answers. Normally, the intelligence network is "monitored" by a select committee of congress critters, who generally don't report much of anything back to the main body of congress.
First experience with Win7 was on older hardware - and things just didn't work well.
The "pretty", I can live without.
The advantages of using GPU instead of CPU? Yeah, I guess. Newer hardware seems to be more adequate to the task of computing.
To put it plainly, I just don't like Aero. All of my desktop environments are as basic as I can make them. KDE's Plasma doesn't do much for me, Ubuntu's Unity bites as bad as Microsoft's Metro - I just can't stand them. I want a plain jane desktop, that I can navigate easily. With Win7, I go back to the "classic" desktop, to get rid of all that shiny pretty nonsense.
WTF paid you to say that? And, WTF is a "Windows based metric"? If 8 has a lot going for it, then we're all hoping that it keeps on going, for a very long walk off of a short pier. Windows users seem to agree that IF you ARE a Windows user, it's best to stay with Win7, and hope to hell that Win9 is a usable system.
So - they moved Westcliff to the USA while no one was watching? A lot of people in England are going to miss it! Or, maybe you read a different summary than I did, and your post was mysteriously moved to THIS discussion.
Define "ridiculously expensive" please. I routinely fill sixteen of those 5 ft tall nitrogen bottles. It takes about three hours to fill the pack up. Some days, it might take as much as six hours - but that is about 4 times faster than we use the stuff, so it's still cool.
Run compressed air from an industrial air compressor to the generator, then feed the nitrogen to a four stage air compressor. I never asked what the system cost, new - but I don't think it was as much as $30,000. Oh - toss in the air dryer, you might have a bit over $30,000. I can't promise any PURITY level. We have to constantly monitor the oxygen content. I can say that as long as we keep oxygen content below 10% we can put hydrocarbons (plastic) under tons of pressure while it cools and hardens without any chemical reactions taking place.
Of course, this is industrial use, not academic laboratory work. Your purity requirements may require equipment that costs much more - or not.
Necessity is supposed to be the mother of invention. If that be true, then there is no reason to wait until we've invented a working biome. We send a few colonists, and some of them die, or even all of them die. We send a few more colonists. Someone decides that they are all going to die unless they make their home semi-independent of Earth for oxygen and other supplies. Someone then creates the technology, and yet more people engineer that tech into working models.
That's what I like about BobFM and JackFM. Or, did. The Bob station that I listened to on the way to work was bought by someone who thought that Texarkana needed yet another country station. But - no matter the genre, if they can't avoid repeating the same song more than once a day, the station is a FAILURE!!
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To be fair, there seems to be a very tiny kernel of truth to Akin's claims. It seems that a woman might be more receptive to a male with whom she has previously had intercourse. More specifically, males with whom she has had intercourse within the the past month have an excellent chance of impregnating her. Something about her immune system allowing the sperm in.
So, presumably, a rapist with whom she had never had intercourse would have a poor chance of impregnating the woman.
But - as I say, it's a very tiny kernel of truth. It's possible that Akin's read of the same study that I did, and did some huge ass short circuit to the conclusion that rapists can't impregnate their victims.
Heh - my Google search term gave this link back - notice the title, LMAO! There's more at work here than I imagined!
http://conceptualclarity.blogs.experienceproject.com/929463.html
Ooooohhhhhhh! Subversive!
Greed? You call it greed? How can you? I am very happy that Apple has these approved conductors. Using an unapproved conductor might result in some random positively charged electron flowing through my device. What kind of havoc might result from THAT? Oh, Please, Apple - put those chips into your conductive cables! Filter out those positive electrons!! Yea, though I walk through the valley of positiveness, Apple will protect me with negativeness!!
Alright, so the inanity and the sarcasm are over done - I apologize.
Not by you or I - but a pedobear might see things differently.
You presume that a God would find harmony to be the most desired trait of an entire world.
I think that God has more in common with Mars, than some of the other pantheon from Greece and Rome. All living things struggle for existence. There is no peace in nature. Every single day's survival is hard won for almost all creatures.
Oh? Really? Could you point me to the robot that has entered intergalactic space? I didn't think so. Depending on one's definition of interstellar space, we might argue that no robot has yet left our solar system, let alone our galaxy. The robot that has gotten furthest from our sun is still subject to our sun's gravitational influence.
Didn't say "still has". I said, "in my youth".
I painted the simplistic picture - but it remains true today that the cops do their phone tapping at the exchange, not at the suspect's house.
"pay some guy to drive a over to the subject house and install a physical device on the identified wire"
That is almost entirely false. The physical device is located at the telephone exchange. Identify the wire at the switchboard, and tap away.
In my youth, there were still "party lines", as opposed to "private lines". Paying the dollar or two extra to get a private line didn't change a damned thing at all - you still had the very same wires, running to the very same exchange. But people on a party line could lift the phone anytime, and listen in on the neighbor's conversation. The operator at the exchange has always had that same ability.
If the cops are installing a bug on your phone, that means they want to hear what you're talking about when you are NOT ON the phone!
Haven't they found a cure for that?
"The executive branch is tasked with enforcing the law. It can only do so by means of potentially-lethal force, which is otherwise illegal"
I would argue that statement to be false as well. The "it can only do so" part of the second sentence makes it false.
Government MAY use lethal force to enforce a law - but it MAY also do so with other means.
Take the average police standoff, in which there are no hostages, and no lives at stake other than the suspect and the police. The cops MAY fire thousands of rounds into the vicinity of the suspect - OR, they MAY just wait him out.
I am not averse to using deadly force when people's lives are at stake. But, there have been a number of cases in which the cops seem to be trigger happy thugs. A recent WW2 veteran who was killed for refusing medications in a nursing home comes to mind . . .
I'm partial to the 283 or the 327, myself. I had a car that most guys wouldn't even look at. An old, ugly, station wagon. Well, to be honest, it wasn't THAT ugly. It shined up nicely, but it was a STATION WAGON!! 327 with a 3-speed slip-slide, and highway gears. There was nothing special about it, no custom engine work or anything - it was just a strong engine. When I went to town, I'd play games with the motorheads at the traffic lights - they'd burn half their rubber off their cars, but the old wagon would just grab asphalt and get down the road.
I never learned how fast that car would go, but the speedo went to 140, and I broke it out repeatedly, until I got tired of buying cables.
As I recall - the Talladega could give you 200+ in the late sixties. Washington and Nascar started work on forcing LESS powerful engines to be used, bringing "record speeds" at the race tracks DOWN. I'm less of a Mopar fan than I am a Ford fan - but Dodge was producing cars that went head to head with the Talladega, and sometimes won.
Funny thing is - if you're capable of balancing atop three or more high speed gyros, there are a number of inexpensive motorcycles that will outrun any of the cars being sold as "sport" cars. Ten thousand is a good starting point for bikes that can flirt with 200 mph, and if you're more than half serious, you can start modifying that bike as soon as you get it home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Hayabusa
I certainly can't afford any of these exotic cars, but I'm no stranger to high speed.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=vietnam+CIA+false+flag+
Like Iraq, Vietnam was also based on manufactured false information. You may limit your reading to the wikis, or you may dig deeper, as you wish. But, Tonkin Bay, which was the primary igniter in getting our troops into Vietnam was entirely a false flag operation.
Nahhh - some people probably think it's the government's budget for black SUV's. And, that would be "news for nerds" based on all the options and accessories to be found in said black SUV's.
I saw one not long ago, in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Damned thing was completely blacked out, violating any and all laws about tinted windshields. There had to be six antenna sticking up out of it, maybe more. I only saw it for a couple seconds, in cross traffic at one of the three red light intersections in town. Wonder what the hell spooks were doing in Broken Bow, Oklahoma? Maybe there was a credible threat to the ancient old cypress tree outside of town or something.
Drones. That's where the money goes. Drones are expensive. And, the facilities to operate the drones. The military industrial complex, and the components of that complex, sets their own prices. Like the no-bid contracts exposed in the Iraq war, money is no problem. Secret deals are made, complete with kickbacks and campaign donations, and the government pays whatever the contractor says to pay. The people who authorize these expenditures are part of the same group that authorizes expenditures for billion dollar aircraft. Think about that - billion dollar aircraft.
Alright - maybe I exaggerate the drone cost some, but I am pretty damned serious.
You've just arrived on the internet, and you've never heard of Predator, or Echelon, of any other data gathering programs and softwares.
Well, since you are so new here, your ignorance can be forgiven. Prism is just the latest version of data mining programs. And, Prism isn't the only program. A number of articles have suggested that Prism is just one of the many facets of NSA spying.
It is GOVERNMENT that is at fault here. It isn't one administration - it is GOVERNMENT. Our government is so damned big, even congress has little idea what any part of government is doing. Only after Snowden forced Prism into the spotlight did members of congress begin to demand answers. Normally, the intelligence network is "monitored" by a select committee of congress critters, who generally don't report much of anything back to the main body of congress.
Self flagellation is preferred over allowing the greater world to whip you mercilessly.
First experience with Win7 was on older hardware - and things just didn't work well.
The "pretty", I can live without.
The advantages of using GPU instead of CPU? Yeah, I guess. Newer hardware seems to be more adequate to the task of computing.
To put it plainly, I just don't like Aero. All of my desktop environments are as basic as I can make them. KDE's Plasma doesn't do much for me, Ubuntu's Unity bites as bad as Microsoft's Metro - I just can't stand them. I want a plain jane desktop, that I can navigate easily. With Win7, I go back to the "classic" desktop, to get rid of all that shiny pretty nonsense.
Win7 really ain't bad - after you turn the Aero crap OFF!
WTF paid you to say that? And, WTF is a "Windows based metric"? If 8 has a lot going for it, then we're all hoping that it keeps on going, for a very long walk off of a short pier. Windows users seem to agree that IF you ARE a Windows user, it's best to stay with Win7, and hope to hell that Win9 is a usable system.
Frigging shills . . .
So - they moved Westcliff to the USA while no one was watching? A lot of people in England are going to miss it! Or, maybe you read a different summary than I did, and your post was mysteriously moved to THIS discussion.
Ahhhh - biologically useful. I guess the best biological use I can put my N2 to, would be asphyxiating aerobic critters . . . maybe politicians?
Define "ridiculously expensive" please. I routinely fill sixteen of those 5 ft tall nitrogen bottles. It takes about three hours to fill the pack up. Some days, it might take as much as six hours - but that is about 4 times faster than we use the stuff, so it's still cool.
http://www.balstonfilters.com/nitrogen_systems.html?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=nitrogen%20generator&utm_content=Nitrogen%2BGenerators&utm_campaign=BF-Nit.%2BGenerators-Local&ex=9v32bx-13c8k9q-1y4hlm
Run compressed air from an industrial air compressor to the generator, then feed the nitrogen to a four stage air compressor. I never asked what the system cost, new - but I don't think it was as much as $30,000. Oh - toss in the air dryer, you might have a bit over $30,000. I can't promise any PURITY level. We have to constantly monitor the oxygen content. I can say that as long as we keep oxygen content below 10% we can put hydrocarbons (plastic) under tons of pressure while it cools and hardens without any chemical reactions taking place.
Of course, this is industrial use, not academic laboratory work. Your purity requirements may require equipment that costs much more - or not.
Necessity is supposed to be the mother of invention. If that be true, then there is no reason to wait until we've invented a working biome. We send a few colonists, and some of them die, or even all of them die. We send a few more colonists. Someone decides that they are all going to die unless they make their home semi-independent of Earth for oxygen and other supplies. Someone then creates the technology, and yet more people engineer that tech into working models.
THEN, the moon declares independence from Earth.
"the same 20 songs repeated every hour"
That's what I like about BobFM and JackFM. Or, did. The Bob station that I listened to on the way to work was bought by someone who thought that Texarkana needed yet another country station. But - no matter the genre, if they can't avoid repeating the same song more than once a day, the station is a FAILURE!!